"Finding her place as an actress, on- and offscreen, seems not to have gotten much easier. Oscar notwithstanding, “there are not great female roles that are just flourishing,” she says, partly explaining her recent distance from Hollywood. In fact, playing Jackie has actually got her nostalgic for an earlier era. Films from the ’50s and ’60s “have such strong female roles all the time,” she says, citing Sunset Boulevardand Marnie. “Even if they’ll make the occasional sexist comment, they still have a central woman character who has a personality … Now I feel like movies are all about white men and then you get a couple that happen to be about women.”